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The Hair Carpet Weavers: Penguin Science Fiction

Autor Andreas Eschbach Traducere de Doryl Jensen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 aug 2020
In a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and girls. But why? Andreas Eschbach's mysterious, poignant space opera explores the absurdity of work and of life itself.

'A novel of ideas that evokes complex emotions through the working out of an intricate and ultimately satisfying plot, with echoes of Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Isaac Asimov'The New York Times Book Review
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ISBN-13: 9780241454718
ISBN-10: 0241454719
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 111 x 181 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Science Fiction

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Andreas Eschbachis one of Germany's pre-eminent science-fiction writers. Born in the city of Ulm in 1959, he studied aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart.The Hair Carpet Weavers(Die Haarteppichknüpfer, 1995) was his debut novel, and won the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis, the Belgian Prix Bob Morane and the French Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for best foreign-language novel. His subsequent books have won numerous prizes in Germany and been translated into a number of languages, including English, French, Italian, Russian, Serbian, Polish, Turkish and Japanese.

Recenzii

German SF has recently produced at least one new writer on the world stage: Andreas Eschbach
A novel of ideas that evokes complex emotions through the working out of an intricate and ultimately satisfying plot, with echoes of Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Isaac Asimov
Eschbach is a novelist with vision, with compassion, and with a sense of tragedy, of character, of spectacle, and of human possibility, and also human inevitability ... An unforgettable, beautiful, perpetually entertaining novel
An outstanding work
A world-class SF voice
The Carpet Makerswill blow you away ... clever, insightful, entertaining and satisfying
A magnum opus ... Even more astounding, it was Eschbach's debut